Reviews van ActiveVideo

Pluspunten

Relaxing, family-like atmosphere, friendly working environment as well as nice and supportive colleagues make it comfortable to work here. The company provides smooth relocation process which is quite important especially if you do it for the first time. Compensation is competitive and slightly above average across the market.

Minpunten

Too little of development since the Product is well developed and the company is mostly oriented on maintainance, test coverage and bug fixing. I think I did not write even 500 code lines during these 6 months. If you want to develop something new and implement it in code, probably this is not the best place. Too few opportunities for growth as a developer since there are just 3 teams and there is no large variety... of technologies and tasks. Compensation is worse than in large IT companies which apparently is the consequence of the company's size and profit. There is no pension scheme and bonus included into your contract. However, bonus usually is paid but it is not that big.

Advies aan management

Don't hire developers if you don't need to develop. Or at least inform candidates more truthfully about what they will do in real life.

Pluspunten

At ActiveVideo I work with very smart and kind colleagues. The culture at work is informal, the work atmosphere is very good. We are working on inventing new technology, so the work always offers new challenges. I really appreciate the freedom I get to decide how to do my job. There is room for contributing new ideas. The company has a drive for high quality. Salaries are very good, we have regular company outings... or side activities, cooperation is easy and stimulating.

Minpunten

It can sometimes be difficult to find out who has the knowledge on some part of our product.

Pluspunten

The product is very disruptive in the marketplace of Set-Top-Boxes and is based on some interesting technologies. You will never stop learning, in combination with some very nice colleagues I would say: Welcome!

Minpunten

It is hard to get some good new colleagues so we cannot fly as high as we want.

Advies aan management

Keep focussed and we will reach our goals

Pluspunten

The company has changed a lot in the last 3 years. After a few internal changes it transitioned from a traditional start up to a predictable, though still flexible, software company. In this process the types of people that the new style of working appealed to has changed, and the people who liked more the start up feel from the start left the company. In stead a lot of new, smart and varied background people have... joined and the atmosphere is good. The management is very open about everything business and financial related and we now have a decent and transparent performance review in place, something I cannot say about many other companies. It is also easy to make an impact if you have a strong sense of ownership and fight for what you want to do, people are very responsive to initiative. Also, very good work-life balance! If you have kids, health issues or just want a day off, you will not have any issues making time for this in the working time(common sense is needed of course :D )

Minpunten

The company has one disproportionately big customer that likes to throw his weight around and even though that generates a lot of revenue, also dictates around 50% of what we work on. It is up to you to pull your well argumented and passionate ideas around for the other 50%.

Advies aan management

Keep up the transparency and make sure we all work together towards the same goal!

Pluspunten

I've been working at ActiveVideo for more than 3 years and my experience with the company so far has been positive. What I appreciate most about it is that it nurtures an environment for proactive people and thought leaders. It's not the kind of place where you can expect things to be handed to you in a way that it can happen in corporations, where your role is clearly defined and the boundaries of your... ownership/"territory" are enforced like a straight-jacket . Since the company is quite small, I've experienced a lot of flexibility in trying different things, exploring the boundaries, experimenting with different tools and techniques and approaches, as limits are not always clearly defined (which can be both a positive and a negative at the same time). The "it's not my responsibility" line doesn't fly very often and, in the engineering department, the agile teams are solely responsible for their output (from the moment the feature request comes in, until the software is released to the customer, including customer integration support), promoting a sense of ownership and accountability with the engineers. The colleagues are fun people, it's a very multi-cultural environment, with social events for all ages and interests (family activities too), including activities outside work (for those interested in mingling with colleagues). I've made quite a number of friends with whom I hang out outside of work.

Minpunten

For some people, the "you have to ask for it or do it yourself" approach does not work well. Some processes within engineering are still to be figured out as they grew "organically", which is not something everybody is comfortable with figuring out. The plus side is that the colleagues are very helpful and the knowledge exists within the company, but with some things the structured approach still lacks.

Pluspunten

- Smart people to work with. People are open minded as well - Complex and interesting software - Flat organisation

Minpunten

- The location is not ideal if you don't have a direct train connection. - Would be nice if we had some more events with the whole team.

Advies aan management

- Keep going

Pluspunten

Very nice colleagues who know their stuff and an exciting product to work on. Sometimes there can be some work pressure, but this is normal in this industry and it has been organized in a different (better) way recently. The atmosphere among people is good. There are collective social activities at least twice a year.

Minpunten

Early 2018 the company had to let go a number of people to make it healthy. Now that we're making profit again, times have changed in a positive manner.

Pluspunten

Nice colleagues, very reasonable salaries.

Minpunten

Company is lost since acquisition about 3 years ago. No vision, no sales, no future. People are considered single-use disposables. Be careful giving up your current life to work for this EOL company.

Advies aan management

Start actually managing instead of talking. Choose a strategy with an horizon longer than two or three working days.